France is satisfied with the "generosity of Russians" in the Mistral transaction - I am ready to sell the Russian Federation everything except NATO codes and missiles

France is pleased with her contract with Russia for the supply of helicopter carriers of the Mistral type and is ready to continue to continue cooperation in the military-technical sphere. In particular, the French side promises this year to issue a contract for the construction of the third and fourth helicopter carrier.

“After the sale of Mistral, our country is ready to offer Russia the most modern weapons and military equipment, except for ballistic missiles, radio electronic wrestling equipment, NATO codes and a number of automated combat control systems,” RIA Novosti Valdai Club, Arno Kalika , quotes, quotes.

Recall that in June 2011, as part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia and France signed a contract for the supply of two French helicopters in 2014 and 2015. The French state -owned company DCNS at the end of last year reported that she received an advance from the Russian side from a total of 1.2 billion euros and began to build the first ship for Russia.

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In addition, an agreement was reached on the construction of two more ships at the shipyard of the Baltic Plant with the participation of a united shipbuilding corporation. Later, however, the Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov announced that the housings of the two Mistral would be built, most likely, at Sevmash enterprise in Severodvinsk. These ships will cost Russia 2.5 billion euros.

The universal helicopter Mistral with a displacement of 21 thousand tons and the maximum body length of 210 meters is able to develop a speed of more than 18 knots. Swimming range - up to 20 thousand miles. The number of the crew is 160 people, an additional helicopter carrier can take 450 people aboard.

The air group includes 16 helicopters, of which six can be simultaneously placed on a take -off deck. On these ships, it is planned to place eight Ka-52K and eight Ka-29 helicopters. The signing of the final contract for the construction of the third and fourth Mistral helicopter carrier was expected at the end of 2011, but so far the negotiations are ongoing.

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"According to my data, negotiations are successful, the parties are close to the conclusion of this agreement. I believe that the contract will be signed this year," Arno Kalika said. He also said that the topic of Mistral's sale received a certain resonance in French society.

"If we talk about the approach of the French military, we must clearly understand that the Ministry of Defense of France for the most part still remains a deep distrust of Russia, with which people in uniform, still need to keep the ear in vast," the French expert said. According to him, there were, in particular, the opinions that if it was possible to sell such a ship of Georgia, it would be preferable.

“It would be right, in French, it would be in French. And so there is a certain feeling of discomfort: they didn’t sell it, the wrong hands go to Mistral. But, as they say, it was done, it is done. Moreover, even the military are forced to state: when buying Mistral, Russians did not know the borders, and they were truly great in negotiations at the price,” - admitted Expert.

If we talk about the reaction of the media, the pragmatic approach predominantly prevailed in business publications, and the coverage of this topic here was quite objective. The publications interpreted this deal as the personal success of President Nicolas Sarkozy.

There was another approach to the question - ideological. “It consists, firstly, that the sale of these large warships of Russia means the final end of the Cold War. And another approach can be characterized as a tragic. It is mostly characteristic of political opponents of the current president of France:“ Horror, horror, horror, ”the newspaper voiced their opinions. - Look how low Sarkozy fell! He went about these insidious Russians who can use Mistral to attacks against France's friends. "

"As for the public in the broadest sense, the non -wealthy part of French citizens, they were a deal on Mistral, as they are sometimes expressed in Russia, from the very beginning was deeply" on the drum. "Are equally indifferent to this part of the company and the further prospects of bilateral military -technical cooperation between Moscow and Paris," the expert noted.

Russian "defense" is in deep resentment, and the Ministry of Defense blames it with shortsighted

Recall, “good” for the purchase of foreign military equipment , the Ministry of Defense was given by President Dmitry Medvedev. Against the background of the scandal with a breakdown of the state defense order, he allowed the head of the department to purchase foreign equipment, if it would be more profitable. In 2012, financing of the state defense order is determined at the level of 1.769 trillion rubles.

In Russia, this decision caused an acute reaction. Last summer, the Association of Russian Trade Unions of the Defense Industry of Industry and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia turned to President Medvedev, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as well as to the parliament and the country's security council with the demand to legally prohibit the constant purchase of foreign equipment.

They accused the Ministry of Defense of purposeful underestimation of the wages of workers in defense enterprises in the purchase of defense products. For comparison, an example was given: the average salary of workers in Russian shipbuilding plants producing military equipment, in the price of state defense order is about 30 thousand rubles. At the same time, the average salary is about 160 thousand rubles in French shipyards producing Mistral helicopter carriers.

According to representatives of trade unions, such a practice is a “criminal” in relation to Russian enterprises and workers, and also contradicts Art. 7 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the General Agreement between All-Russian Associations of Trade Unions, Employers and the Government of the Russian Federation for 2011-2013.

However, the Ministry of Defense trade unions accused of short -sightedness and said that the purchase of Mistral helicopters would fully justify itself. “We create such purchases for the perspective, because we buy the same Mistral not to buy and watch how it swims. We purchase technologies that will be used in our production in the future,” the sources said in the department.